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Tove Jansson Work and Love RIGHTS CATALOGUE CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT SPRING 2018 This is Rights & Brands We bring Nordic rights to a global arena. Our background is in literature, art and design. We are a 360 agency using all aspects of character representation and branding, from publishing and PR to licensing, merchandising and digital presence. With a worldwide network of sub-agents and over 700 clients, our international knowledge and business capacity is unique. What we do We are a literary rights and brand licensing agency. Starting from a strategic base in Nordic literature and design, our platform is built on knowledge, passion and people. With a dozen sub-agents in key markets like Japan, Korea and China and over 7 00 clients worldwide, we are opening up our business network to Nordic rights holders, authors, illustrators and designers. What we can do for you Based on our experiences and successes with the Moomin brand and with an established international platform, we are building publishing rights as well as potential licensing, merchandising and digital platforms. With your brand and our knowledge we will open up new markets and business areas. rightsandbrands [email protected] www.rightsandbrands.com rightsandbrands Tove Jansson Work and Love Tove Jansson (1914-2001), Finnish-Swedish writer and artist, achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomins, written and illustrated between 1945 and 1970. The books about the brave, adventurous, yet family-focused and home-loving Moomins have been translated into more than 50 languages and are still in print all over the world today. The Moomins were only a part of Jansson’s prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia’s best-loved author. Tove Jansson’s work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family, of nature and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. “Work and love” was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful ters™ and uncompromising. C in Chara M Moo © 3 Moomin Novels | Tove Jansson Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated nine novels, four picture books and hundreds of comic strips about the Moomins. The Moomins and the Comet in Moominland Great Flood (Kometjakten/Kometen kommer) (Småtrollen och den stora PAGES: 172 översvämningen) FIRST PUBLISHED IN: PAGES: 64 1946/1968 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1945 Finn Family The Exploits of Often regarded as the first Moomin Moomintroll Moomin pappa The story about Moominmamma’s novel in the series, as it is set in (Trollkarlens hatt) (Muminpappans bravader/ and Moomintroll’s search for Moominvalley and introduces PAGES: 164 Mumminpappans memoarer) the missing Moominpappa and several of the main characters, like FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1948 PAGES: 156 how they found their way to the Snufkin and Snorkmaiden. FIRST PUBLISHED IN: Moominvalley. When Moomin, Sniff and Snufkin 1950/1968 discover a Magician’s hat on a mountain top, the strangest things Moominpappa has lived an amaz- start to happen in Moominvalley… ing life and this is autobiograhy, as told to his son Moomintroll and to Moomintroll’s friends Sniff and Snufkin. Moominsummer Madness (Farlig midsommar) PAGES: 144 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1954 The main theme of Moominsum­ mer Madness is that of theatre, described as an infuriating but ultimately rewarding process. 4 Tove Jansson | Moomin Novels Moominland Midwinter Tales from Moomin valley Moominpappa at Sea Moominvalley in (Trollvinter) (Det osynliga barnet) (Pappan och havet) November PAGES: 144 PAGES: 168 PAGES: 228 (Sent i november) FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1957 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1962 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1965 PAGES: 205 FIRST PUBLISHED IN:1970 Moomintroll is lonely, miserable, A collection of nine short stories On the initative of the adventurous angry and scared – the result about the successes and challenges Moominpappa, the family is off to As autumn is turning into winter, of being forced to survive in a of the citizens of Moominvalley. live in a lighthouse on a tiny island, a group of visitors are waiting to world to which he feels he does Readers will discover how the because even the home-loving see the Moomin family. Finding not belong. While preserving the Moomin family save young Ninny Moomins need a change of scenery that the Moomins are not at home, charm of the previous novels, this from permanent invisibility, and sometimes. the guests settle down to wait story involves a more in-depth what happens when Moomintroll for them and suddenly find new exploration of Moo mintroll’s catches the last dragon in the ways to relate to each other. For character. world. Moominvalley is Moominvalley still, even without the Moomins in it. 5 Moomin Picture books | Tove Jansson The Book about Who Will Comfort The Dangerous Journey An Unwanted Guest Moomin, Mymble and Toffle? (Den farliga resan) (Skurken i Muminhuset) Little My (Vem ska trösta Knyttet?) PAGES: 28 PAGES: 32 (Hur gick det sen?) PAGES: 27 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1970. FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1980 PAGES: 24 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1960 FIRST PUBLISHED IN: 1952 The Dangerous Journey tells the Instead of drawings by Tove Toffle is lonely. He runs away story of the nightmarish adven- Jansson, this book is illustrated The Book about Moomin, Mymble from home, watching the char- tures of Susanna, the Hemulen, with photos taken by her brother, and Little My was the first Moo- acters of Moominvalley celebrate Sniff, Sorry-Oo and Thingummy photographer Per Olov Jansson. min picture book by Tove Jansson. and enjoy life. Too shy to speak & Bob as they travel through The photos show the rooms and Moomintroll is taking milk back to anyone, he is sad. Despite his Moominvalley after Susanna inhabitants of the Moomin House home to Moominmamma, when insecurities, Toffle finally finds loses her glasses. model, now on display in the he meets Mymble who is search- the courage to overcome his Moomin Museum in Tampere, ing for her missing sister, Little fears and save another frightened Finland. My. Together the pair go looking creature, the mesmerizing Miffle. for her. 6 Tove Jansson | Moomin Comics M t ove Jansson Jansson ove T © Moomin Collected Comics vol 1-10 The Moomin comics were originally cre- ated by Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson for the Evening News in London, at the time the world’s biggest newspaper. The comic was commissioned in the 50s and the creative siblings produced the daily adventures for over 20 years. The comics were syndicated to 120 newspa- Moomin Colour pers in over 40 countries, reaching more Comics than 20 million readers daily. The fantastic comic The comics are now being collected adventures of the and published in chronological order and Moomins are now Moomin Colour Comics once again attaining worldwide success. available as single story, Moomins on the Riviera 10 volumes in b/w colour comic books. Moomin and the Martians PAGES:approx 106 per volume 14 titles available now, Moomin’s Desert Island and more to come! Moomin and the Golden Tail 14 titles Moomin and the Comet PAGES: 48-64 Moomin Builds a House Moomin and the Sea Moomin Falls in Love Moomin’s Winter Follies Moominvalley Turns Jungle Moomin Deluxe Club Life in Moominvalley Anniversary Edition Moomin and Family Life PAGES: 448 Moominmamma’s Maid Collected comics box with Moomin Begins a New Life sketch material and poster. 7 The History of Moomin 1970 1959 The first Moomin 1914 Tove Jansson is born on 1949 The first Moomin television series, a August 9, 1914. play, Moomin and the Comet, German puppet premieres. animation. 1950 The third book, The 1960 Tove’s Exploits of Moominpappa. 1950s The Moomin novels brother Lars Jans- are translated and published in son takes over 1951 The first edition in the Finnish. the Moomin comic US, The Happy Moo mins production. (Troll karlens Hatt). Mid-1950s 1 First Moomin 94 3 licensed products, ceramics by Ara- bia and handmade 1930s Tove Moomin dolls by 19 s Jansson draws the 30 Ateljé Fauni. first version of a Moomintroll on the wall of the outhouse. 1957 The fifth book, Moominland 5 Tove uses a Moomin- Midwinter. 96 1940s 0 1 like character as a 6 0 9 5 1 reoccurring 9 1958 The the- 1960 The signature in the 1 1952 The first atre play Troll i second pic- magazine Garm. picture book, kulisserna (Moo­ ture book, The Book about mins on Stage) Who Will 1945 The Moomin, Mymble premieres. Comfort booklet The and Little My. Toffle? Moo mins and 9 the Great Flood 1954 The fourth 5 1962 The sixth 9 is published. book, Moomin­ 1 book, Tales from summer Madness. Moominvalley. 54 1946 The first 19 book about 1954 London’s Evening 1965 The seventh book, the Moo- News commissions and Moo min pappa at Sea. mins, Comet in publishes the Moomin Moominland is comic strip. 1969 Moomin becomes a published. Swedish TV celebrity with 7 the series Mumintrollen (The 5 1947 The first 4 9 Moomins). 5 1 Moomin comic, Moo­ 9 1 mintroll and the End 1970 The eight book, Moo­ of the World. minvalley in November. 1948 The second book, 1974 The first Moomin opera. Finn Family Moomintroll. 8 70 19 7 The History of Moomin 7 9 1 Junibacken opens 2015 15 0 a major Moomin exhi- 2 bition and play-area in Stockholm. 1979 15 20 0 16 2001 Tove Jansson dies. 2 1977 The 2010 Film, Moomin third picture and the Comet Chase, book, The with music by Björk. Dangerous Journey. 2011 Launch of the first Moomin shop in 1979 The London. Moomin house 2019 New TV animation, tours Europe.
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